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...Bork was composing his withdrawal speech that afternoon, Simpson called. "I've been thinking it over," the Senator said. "You ought to stand up for the principle involved if you think you can do it." Bork's resolve began to weaken. Meanwhile, his family debated the decision in a law clerks' lounge across the hall. Soon after he finished talking to Simpson, they entered his chambers. "Something's bothering us," Charles Bork told his father. "You can't quit. To quit now would be to a great degree to concede the validity of the attack against...
Barrages of mass-produced sounds and images targeted to weaken consumer resistance and sway opinion have made the new literary generation knowing observers of style and class. Most share affluent backgrounds and a sense of being entitled to the best brand names, higher education, sex, drugs and psychotherapy. Their casual sophistication is worn two sizes too big. The best characters in their fiction are invariably white, bright and dangerous to know, like the autobiographical narrator of McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and his sidekick Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching...
Another University health official said that academic pressures could also explain the increase in student sickness. Dr. Randolph Catlin, Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard, noted that several scientific studies have shown that stress can weaken immune responses, which in turn makes people more susceptable to a cold. Still, the doctor said he would not attribute the recent wave of colds on any stress he had noticed at Harvard...
...Atlantic Alliance and the European Community. A few West Europeans have even raised the specter of German reunification, fearing the creation of a nation that would economically overwhelm the rest of Europe. But the principal objection is that a unified Germany would be neutral. This would hopelessly weaken NATO and, in effect, allow the Soviets to dominate the Continent without ever making a military move...
...renown as the exemplar of dedicated labor. South Korea? Taiwan? West Germany? No, again. Every one of the trends cited is occurring in the U.S. -- the very country Richard Nixon once said was being overtaken by a "new welfare ethic that could cause the American character to weaken." Nixon need not have worried: 15 years after he voiced his forebodings, and as Labor Day approaches, every indication is that 112.7 million Americans by and large are working as hard as ever, and sometimes harder, even where the vaunted computer revolution has lightened their jobs. The main reason, unfortunately, is often...